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I turned on my television Thursday morning and heard a beating heart. It was the beautiful, vulnerable sound of an unborn baby's still-developing heart, from an ultrasound. "We don't know...

One troubled veteran blows himself up on a busy street in the nation's capital. Another former soldier kills dogs, birds and finally a Cabinet officer in an increasingly desperate plea...

Students, faculty and parents, it is my honor to deliver a commencement speech today. I am about to do something I have never done as president: tell it like it...

By Byron York Birtherism -- the belief that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not in the United States -- pretty much died last year when the White House released...

Speaking of a particularly creative murder suspect whose alibis grew increasingly more improbable, a veteran prosecutor once put it to me this way: "I've always found it's easier to keep...

I've never been a great fan of Walmart. I like little towns, towns where Main Street is lined with small shops and stores -- drugstores, hardware stores, a café where...

President Obama and his wife, the health nanny in chief, obviously don't know when they've gone too far in their crusade to socialize and Obamatize America. They couldn't stop pushing...

Name-calling is the coward's way to avoid intelligent discourse. Liberals are notorious for responding to just about anything or anyone with whom they disagree using ad hominem rebuttals to discredit...

The 2012 campaign season is shaping up as a possible "transformational" election, but not the kind that Barack Obama and many Democrats had in mind.

Minnesota House Republicans used the past session to pursue government reforms begun last year, when the GOP wrested control of that chamber. And that suits Rep. David Hancock, R-Bemidji, who...

Recent Time and Newsweek covers constitute last gasps in the dying newsweekly business.

Disregard the almanac. And the calendar. Forget whatever the meteorologist or the astrology charts or your next-door neighbor with the hair growing out of a mole shaped like the state...

If you ask the typical hyper-political gun owner (and I have ... at Thanksgiving dinner), why it's important to own a gun, they'll bark about the Constitution. Yes, the Second...

One of the great villains of Richard Nixon's villainous administration went to his final reward last month. Charles Colson, Tricky Dick's master of dirty tricks, died of complications after suffering...

We'll never know what Ronald Reagan would have done with WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the White House. But I know my father wouldn't be abusing it the way Barack...